U2 & Martin Garrix – “Fireflies”

Once upon a time, U2 tried to make dance music. After successfully reinventing themselves as ironic aesthetes on Achtung Baby and Zooropa, U2 steered all the way into the late-'90s electronica hype wave on their 1997 album Pop, and the result was not what they wanted. U2 quickly abandoned that aesthetic path, leaning into classic sounds and elder-statesman status on later records. So it's interesting to hear U2 teaming up with the Dutch DJ and producer Martin Garrix now — not just after the electronica thing became a distant memory, but also after the boom of festival-ready EDM that Garrix represents became old news. The post U2 & Martin Garrix – “Fireflies” appeared first on Stereogum.